Dmitri Orlov

Dmitri Orlov (died 1992) was a General of the Soviet Union and later Ukraine. He was assassinated in a car bombing in 1992.

Biography
Dmitri Orlov was born to a Catholic family of Ukrainians in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. His brother immigrated to the United States in the 1970s with his wife and two children after pretending to be persecuted Ukrainian Jews, while Dmitri stayed in the USSR and became a general. He was one of the commanders of the 1,000,000 Soviet troops stationed in the strategically-important Ukraine, and after the fall of the USSR on 25 December 1991, Orlov came into possession of a vast arsenal of weapons. The Soviets could no longer pay their soldiers, as Ukraine became an independent country. Dmitri's nephew Yuri Orlov took advantage of this by heading to Odessa and offering to buy weapons from Orlov. Orlov threatened to report him, but he could no longer report to Moscow, and Ukraine had no leaders, as they were still squabbling over who could own the beautiful presidential estate on the Black Sea. Orlov agreed to sell the weapons, and he helped his nephew.

Orlov was very loyal to his family, putting loyalty ahead of money. He refused several arms dealers' offers, even if they were better than his nephew's. One day in 1992, he refused an offer by the powerful Israeli arms dealer Simeon Weisz, a rival gun runner who had a feud with Yuri Orlov. Weisz ordered for Orlov to be killed to ruin Yuri's business, and General Orlov was killed in a car bombing shortly after Weisz left an unsuccessful meeting with him at the docks of Odessa. However, Yuri's business continued.